linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4 v2] watchdog: disable watchdog when thresh is zero

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Date:	Wed, 18 May 2011 10:35:51 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>,
	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4 v2] watchdog: disable watchdog when thresh is zero

* Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org> wrote:

> +extern int watchdog_thresh;
>  struct ctl_table;
> -extern int proc_dowatchdog_enabled(struct ctl_table *, int ,
> -			void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
> +extern int __proc_dowatchdog(struct ctl_table *, int ,
> +			     void __user *, size_t *, loff_t *);
> +#define proc_dowatchdog_enabled __proc_dowatchdog
> +#define proc_dowatchdog_thresh __proc_dowatchdog

i like the other aspects of your patch but this one is a no-no, we do not use 
1970's tech to obfuscate nice C code! :-)

If the argument list is annoying then introduce a helper structure. But having 
it longer is no big issue either. Try to shorten the function names if 
possible.

Sidenote, the sysctl code has been misdesigned a bit: it should be possible to 
add sysctls in .c files and not centralize it all into kernel/sysctl.c 
forcibly: we could should have a central static array by using a .sysctl_data 
section or such. Anyone wanna fix/improve that?

	Ingo
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